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<div class="subheadlinestyle"><b><big><big>America's Role in the
Creation of the State of Israel</big></big></b></div>
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<h1 class="article-title"><big>The Origins of the Israel Lobby in the US</big></h1>
<big> </big>
<div class="mainauthorstyle"><big>by ALISON WEIR</big></div>
<big> </big>
<div class="main-text"><big> </big>
<p><big>The immediate precursor to today’s pro-Israel lobby began in
1939<a title=""
href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/03/21/the-origins-of-the-israel-lobby-in-the-us/#_edn1">[i]</a>
under the leadership of Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver, originally from
Lithuania. He created the American Zionist Emergency Council (AZEC),
which by 1943 had acquired a budget of half a million dollars at a time
when a nickel bought a loaf of bread.<a title=""
href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/03/21/the-origins-of-the-israel-lobby-in-the-us/#_edn2">[ii]</a></big></p>
<big></big>
<p><big>In addition to this money, Zionists [adherents of “political
Zionism,” a movement to create a Jewish state in Palestine] had become
influential in creating a fundraising umbrella organization, the United
Jewish Appeal, in 1939<a title=""
href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/03/21/the-origins-of-the-israel-lobby-in-the-us/#_edn3">[iii]</a>,
giving them access to the organization’s gargantuan financial
resources: $14 million in 1941, $150 million by 1948. This was four
times more than Americans contributed to the Red Cross and was the
equivalent of approximately $1.5 billion today.<a title=""
href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/03/21/the-origins-of-the-israel-lobby-in-the-us/#_edn4">[iv]</a></big></p>
<big></big>
<p><big>With its extraordinary funding, AZEC embarked on a campaign to
target every sector of American society, ordering that local committees
be set up in every Jewish community in the nation [for decades the
larger majority of Jewish Americans had been either non-Zionits or
actively anti-Zionist]. In the words of AZEC organizer Sy Kenen, it
launched “a political and public relations offensive to capture the
support of Congressmen, clergy, editors, professors, business and
labor.”<a title=""
href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/03/21/the-origins-of-the-israel-lobby-in-the-us/#_edn5">[v]</a></big></p>
<big></big>
<p><big>AZEC instructed activists to “make direct contact with your
local Congressman or Senator“ and to go after union members, wives and
parents of servicemen, and Jewish war veterans. AZEC provided activists
with form letters to use and schedules of anti-Zionist lecture tours to
oppose and disrupt.</big></p>
<big></big>
<p><big>A measure of its power came in 1945 when Silver disliked a
British move that would be harmful to Zionists. AZEC booked Madison
Square Garden, ordered advertisements, and mailed 250,000 announcements
– the first day. By the second day they had organized demonstrations in
30 cities, a letter-writing campaign, and convinced 27 U.S. Senators to
give speeches.<a title=""
href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/03/21/the-origins-of-the-israel-lobby-in-the-us/#_edn6">[vi]</a></big></p>
<big></big>
<p><big>Grassroots Zionist action groups were organized with more than
400 local committees under 76 state and regional branches. AZEC funded
books, articles and academic studies; millions of pamphlets were
distributed. There were massive petition and letter writing campaigns.
AZEC targeted college presidents and deans, managing to get more than
150 to sign one petition.<a title=""
href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/03/21/the-origins-of-the-israel-lobby-in-the-us/#_edn7">[vii]</a></big></p>
<big></big>
<p><big>Rabbi Elmer Berger, executive director of the American Council
for Judaism, which opposed Zionism in the 1940s and ‘50s, writes in his
memoirs that there was a “ubiquitous propaganda campaign reaching just
about every point of political leverage in the country.”<a title=""
href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/03/21/the-origins-of-the-israel-lobby-in-the-us/#_edn8">[viii]</a></big></p>
<big></big>
<p><big>The Zionist Organization of America bragged of the “immensity
of our operations and their diversity” in its 48<sup>th</sup> Annual
Report, stating, “We reach into every department of American life…”<a
title=""
href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/03/21/the-origins-of-the-israel-lobby-in-the-us/#_edn9">[ix]</a></big></p>
<big></big>
<p><big>Berger and other anti-Zionist Jewish Americans tried to
organize against “the deception and cynicism with which the Zionist
machine operated,” but failed to obtain anywhere near their level of
funding. Among other things, would-be dissenters were afraid of “the
savagery of personal attacks” anti-Zionists endured.<a title=""
href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/03/21/the-origins-of-the-israel-lobby-in-the-us/#_edn10">[x]</a></big></p>
<big></big>
<p><big>Berger writes that when he and a colleague opposed a
Zionist resolution in Congress, Emanuel Celler, a New York Democrat who
was to serve in Congress for almost 50 years, told them: “They ought to
take you b…s out and shoot you.”<a title=""
href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/03/21/the-origins-of-the-israel-lobby-in-the-us/#_edn11">[xi]</a></big></p>
<big></big>
<p><big>When it was unclear that President Harry Truman would support
Zionism, Cellar and a committee of Zionists told him that they had
persuaded Dewey to support the Zionist policy and demanded that
Truman also take this stand. Cellar reportedly pounded on Truman‘s
table and said that if Truman did not do so, “We’ll run you out of town.<a
title=""
href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/03/21/the-origins-of-the-israel-lobby-in-the-us/#_edn12">[xii]</a></big></p>
<big></big>
<p><big>Jacob Javits, another well-known senator, this time Republican,
told a Zionist women’s group: “We’ll fight to death and make a Jewish
State in Palestine if it’s the last thing that we do.”<a title=""
href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/03/21/the-origins-of-the-israel-lobby-in-the-us/#_edn13">[xiii]</a></big></p>
<big></big>
<p><big>Richard Stevens, author of <i>American Zionism and U.S.
Foreign Policy, 1942-1947</i>, reports that Zionists infiltrated the
boards of several Jewish schools that they felt didn’t sufficiently
promote the Zionist cause. When this didn’t work, Stevens writes, they
would start their own pro-Zionist schools.<a title=""
href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/03/21/the-origins-of-the-israel-lobby-in-the-us/#_edn14">[xiv]</a></big></p>
<big></big>
<p><big>Stevens writes that in 1943-44 the ZOA distributed over a
million leaflets and pamphlets to public libraries, chaplains,
community centers, educators, ministers, writers and “others who might
further the Zionist cause.”<a title=""
href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/03/21/the-origins-of-the-israel-lobby-in-the-us/#_edn15">[xv]</a></big></p>
<big></big>
<p><big>Alfred Lilienthal, who had worked in the State Department,
served in the U.S. Army in the Middle East from 1943-45, and became a
member of the anti-Zionist American Council for Judaism, reports that
Zionist monthly sales of books totaled between 3,000 and 4,000
throughout 1944-45.</big></p>
<big></big>
<p><big>Richard Stevens reports that Zionists subsidized books by
non-Jewish authors that supported the Zionist agenda. They would then
promote these books jointly with commercial publishers. Several of them
became best sellers.<a title=""
href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/03/21/the-origins-of-the-israel-lobby-in-the-us/#_edn16">[xvi]</a></big></p>
<big></big>
<p><big><b>Zionists manufacture Christian support</b></big></p>
<big></big>
<p><big>AZEC founder Silver and other Zionists played a significant
role in creating Christian support for Zionism.</big></p>
<big></big>
<p><big>Secret Zionist funds, eventually reaching $150,000 in 1946,
were used to revive an elitist Protestant group, the American Palestine
Committee. This group had originally been founded in 1932 by Emanuel
Neumann, a member of the Executive of the Zionist Organization. The
objective was to organize a group of prominent (mainly non-Jewish)
Americans in moral and political support of Zionism. Frankfurter was
one of the main speakers at its launch.<a title=""
href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/03/21/the-origins-of-the-israel-lobby-in-the-us/#_edn17">[xvii]</a></big></p>
<big></big>
<p><big>Silver‘s headquarters issued a directive saying, “In every
community an American Christian Palestine Committee must be immediately
organized.”<a title=""
href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/03/21/the-origins-of-the-israel-lobby-in-the-us/#_edn18">[xviii]</a></big></p>
<big></big>
<p><big>Author Peter Grose reports that the Christian
committee’s operations “were hardly autonomous. Zionist headquarters
thought nothing of placing newspaper advertisements on the clergymen’s
behalf without bothering to consult them in advance, until one of the
committee’s leaders meekly asked at least for prior notice before
public statements were made in their name.”<a title=""
href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/03/21/the-origins-of-the-israel-lobby-in-the-us/#_edn19">[xix]</a></big></p>
<big></big>
<p><big>AZEC formed another group among clergymen, the Christian
Council on Palestine. An internal AZEC memo stated that the aim of both
groups was to “crystallize the sympathy of Christian America for our
cause.”<a title=""
href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/03/21/the-origins-of-the-israel-lobby-in-the-us/#_edn20">[xx]</a></big></p>
<big></big>
<p><big>By the end of World War II the Christian Council on
Palestine had grown to 3,000 members and the American Palestine
Committee boasted a membership of 6,500 public figures, including
senators, congressmen, cabinet members, governors, state officers,
mayors, jurists, clergymen, educators, writers, publishers, and civic
and industrial leaders.</big></p>
<big></big>
<p><big>Historian Richard Stevens explains that Christian support was
largely gained by exploiting their wish to help people in need. Steven
writes that Zionists would proclaim “the tragic plight of refugees
fleeing from persecution and finding no home,” thus linking the refugee
problem with Palestine as allegedly the only solution.<a title=""
href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/03/21/the-origins-of-the-israel-lobby-in-the-us/#_edn21">[xxi]</a></big></p>
<big></big>
<p><big>Stevens writes that the reason for this strategy was clear:
“…while many Americans might not support the creation of a Jewish
state, traditional American humanitarianism could be exploited in favor
of the Zionist cause through the refugee problems.”<a title=""
href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/03/21/the-origins-of-the-israel-lobby-in-the-us/#_edn22">[xxii]</a></big></p>
<big></big>
<p><big>Few if any of these Christian supporters had any idea that the
creation of the Jewish state would entail a massive expulsion of
hundreds of thousands of non-Jews, who made up the large majority of
Palestine‘s population, creating a new and much longer lasting refugee
problem.</big></p>
<big></big>
<p><big>Nor did they learn that during and after Israel’s founding
1947-49 war, Zionist forces attacked a number of Christian sites.
Donald Neff, former <i>Time Magazine</i> Jerusalem bureau chief and
author of five books on Israel-Palestine, reports in detail on Zionist
attacks on Christian sites in May 1948, the month of Israel’s birth.</big></p>
<big></big>
<p><big>Neff tells us that a group of Christian leaders complained that
month that Zionists had killed and wounded hundreds of people,
including children, refugees and clergy, at Christian churches and
humanitarian institutions.</big></p>
<big></big>
<p><big>For example, the group charged that “‘many children were killed
or wounded’ by Jewish shells on the Convent of Orthodox Copts…; eight
refugees were killed and about 120 wounded at the Orthodox
Armenian Convent…; and that Father Pierre Somi, secretary to the
Bishop, had been killed and two wounded at the Orthodox Syrian Church
of St. Mark.”</big></p>
<big></big>
<p><big>“The group’s statement said Arab forces had abided by their
promise to respect Christian institutions, but that the Jews had
forcefully occupied Christian structures and been indiscriminate in
shelling churches,” reports Neff. He quotes a Catholic priest: “‘Jewish
soldiers broke down the doors of my church and robbed many precious and
sacred objects. Then they threw the statues of Christ down into a
nearby garden.’ [The priest] added that Jewish leaders had reassured
that religious buildings would be respected, ‘but their deeds do not
correspond to their words.’”<a title=""
href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/03/21/the-origins-of-the-israel-lobby-in-the-us/#_edn23">[xxiii]</a></big></p>
<big></big>
<p><big>After Zionist soldiers invaded and looted a convent in
Tiberias, the U.S. Consulate sent a bitter dispatch back to the State
Department complaining of “the Jewish attitude in Jerusalem towards
Christian institutions.”<a title=""
href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/03/21/the-origins-of-the-israel-lobby-in-the-us/#_edn24">[xxiv]</a></big></p>
<big></big>
<p><big>An American Christian Biblical scholar concurred, reporting
that a friend in Jerusalem had been told, “When we get control you can
take your dead Christ and go home.”<a title=""
href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/03/21/the-origins-of-the-israel-lobby-in-the-us/#_edn25">[xxv]</a></big></p>
<big></big>
<p><big><b>Zionist Colonization Efforts in Palestine</b></big></p>
<big></big>
<p><big>In order to reach their goal of a Jewish state in Palestine,
Zionists needed to clear the land of Muslim and Christian
inhabitants and replace them with Jewish immigrants.</big></p>
<big></big>
<p><big>This was a tall order, as Muslims and Christians accounted for
more than 95 percent of the population of Palestine.<a title=""
href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/03/21/the-origins-of-the-israel-lobby-in-the-us/#_edn26">[xxvi]</a>
Zionists planned to try first to buy up the land until the previous
inhabitants had emigrated; failing this, they would use violence to
force them out. This dual strategy was discussed in various written
documents cited by numerous Palestinian and Israeli historians.<a
title=""
href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/03/21/the-origins-of-the-israel-lobby-in-the-us/#_edn27">[xxvii]</a></big></p>
<big></big>
<p><big>As this colonial project grew, the indigenous Palestinians
reacted with occasional bouts of violence; Zionists had anticipated
this since people usually resist being expelled from their land.</big></p>
<big></big>
<p><big>When the buyout effort was able to obtain only a few percent of
the land, Zionists created a number of terrorist groups to fight
against both the Palestinians and the British. Terrorist and future
Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin later bragged that Zionists had
brought terrorism both to the Middle East and to the world at large.<a
title=""
href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/03/21/the-origins-of-the-israel-lobby-in-the-us/#_edn28">[xxviii]</a></big></p>
<big></big>
<p><big>By the eve of the creation of Israel, the Zionist immigration
and buyout project had increased the Jewish population of Palestine to
30 percent<a title=""
href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/03/21/the-origins-of-the-israel-lobby-in-the-us/#_edn29">[xxix]</a>
and land ownership from 1 percent to approximately 6-7 percent.<a
title=""
href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/03/21/the-origins-of-the-israel-lobby-in-the-us/#_edn30">[xxx]</a></big></p>
<big></big>
<p><big>This was in 1947, when the British at last announced that they
would end their control of Palestine. Britain turned the territory’s
fate over to the United Nations.</big></p>
<big></big>
<p><big>Since a founding principle of the UN was “self-determination of
peoples,” one would have expected to the UN to support fair, democratic
elections in which inhabitants could create their own independent
country.<a title=""
href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/03/21/the-origins-of-the-israel-lobby-in-the-us/#_edn31">[xxxi]</a></big></p>
<big></big>
<p><big>Instead, Zionists pushed for a General Assembly resolution to
give them a disproportionate 55 percent of Palestine.<a title=""
href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/03/21/the-origins-of-the-israel-lobby-in-the-us/#_edn32">[xxxii]</a><a
title=""
href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/03/21/the-origins-of-the-israel-lobby-in-the-us/#_edn33">[xxxiii]</a>
(While they rarely announced this publicly, their plan, stated in
journal entries and letters, was to later take the rest of Palestine.<a
title=""
href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/03/21/the-origins-of-the-israel-lobby-in-the-us/#_edn34">[xxxiv]</a>)</big></p>
<big></big>
<p><big><strong>U.S. Officials oppose creation of Israel</strong></big></p>
<big></big>
<p><big>The U.S. State Department opposed this
partition plan strenuously, considering Zionism contrary to both
fundamental American principles and U.S. interests.</big></p>
<big></big>
<p><big>For example, the director of the State Department‘s Office of
Near Eastern and African Affairs consistently recommended against
supporting a Jewish state in Palestine. The director, named Loy
Henderson, warned that the creation of such a state would go against
locals’ wishes, imperil U.S. interests and violate democratic
principles.</big></p>
<big></big>
<p><big>Henderson emphasized that the U.S. would lose moral standing in
the world if it supported Zionism:</big></p>
<big></big>
<blockquote>
<p><big>“At the present time the United States has a moral prestige
in the Near and Middle East unequaled by that of any other great power.
We would lose that prestige and would be likely for many years to be
considered as a betrayer of the high principles which we ourselves have
enunciated during the period of the [second world] war.”<a title=""
href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/03/21/the-origins-of-the-israel-lobby-in-the-us/#_edn35">[xxxv]</a></big></p>
</blockquote>
<big></big>
<p><big>When Zionists pushed the partition plan in the UN,
Henderson recommended strongly against supporting their proposal,
saying that such a partition would have to be implemented by force and
was “not based on any principle.” He warned that partition “would
guarantee that the Palestine problem would be permanent and still more
complicated in the future…”</big></p>
<big></big>
<p><big>Henderson elaborated further on how plans to
partition Palestine would violate American and UN principles:</big></p>
<big></big>
<blockquote>
<p><big>“…[Proposals for partition] are in definite contravention to
various principles laid down in the [UN] Charter as well as to
principles on which American concepts of Government are based. These
proposals, for instance, ignore such principles as
self-determination and majority rule. They recognize the principle of a
theocratic racial state and even go so far in several instances as to
discriminate on grounds of religion and race…”<a title=""
href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/03/21/the-origins-of-the-israel-lobby-in-the-us/#_edn36">[xxxvi]</a></big></p>
</blockquote>
<big></big>
<p><big>Zionists attacked Henderson virulently, calling him
“anti-Semitic,” demanding his resignation, and threatening his family.
They pressured the State Department to transfer him elsewhere; one
analyst describes this as “the historic game of musical chairs” in
which officials who recommended Middle East policies “consistent with
the nation’s interests” were moved on.<a title=""
href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/03/21/the-origins-of-the-israel-lobby-in-the-us/#_edn37">[xxxvii]</a></big></p>
<big></big>
<p><big>In 1948 Truman sent Henderson to the slopes of the Himalayas,
as Ambassador to Nepal (then officially<br>
<a
href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/149591092X/counterpunchmaga"><br>
</a>under India).<a title=""
href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/03/21/the-origins-of-the-israel-lobby-in-the-us/#_edn38">[xxxviii]</a>
(In recent years, at times virtually every State Department country
desk has been directed by a Zionist.)<a title=""
href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/03/21/the-origins-of-the-israel-lobby-in-the-us/#_edn39">[xxxix]</a></big></p>
<big></big>
<p><big>But Henderson was far from alone in making his recommendations.
He wrote that his views were not only those of the entire Near East
Division but were shared by “nearly every member of the Foreign
Service or of the [State] Department who has worked to any appreciable
extent on Near Eastern problems.”<a title=""
href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/03/21/the-origins-of-the-israel-lobby-in-the-us/#_edn40">[xl]</a></big></p>
<big></big>
<p><big>He wasn’t exaggerating. Official after official and agency
after agency opposed Zionism.</big></p>
<big></big>
<p><big>In 1947 the CIA reported that Zionist leadership was pursuing
objectives that would endanger both Jews and “the strategic interests
of the Western powers in the Near and Middle East.”<a title=""
href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/03/21/the-origins-of-the-israel-lobby-in-the-us/#_edn41">[xli]</a></big></p>
<big></big>
<p><big>Ambassador Henry F. Grady, who has been called “America’s top
diplomatic soldier for a critical period of the Cold War,” headed a
1946 commission aimed at coming up with a solution for Palestine.
Grady later wrote about the Zionist lobby and its damaging effect on
U.S. national interests.</big></p>
<big></big>
<p><big>“I have had a good deal of experience with lobbies but this
group started where those of my experience had ended,” wrote Grady. “I
have headed a number of government missions but in no other have I ever
experienced so much disloyalty…. [I]n the United States, since there is
no political force to counterbalance Zionism, its campaigns are apt to
be decisive.”<a title=""
href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/03/21/the-origins-of-the-israel-lobby-in-the-us/#_edn42">[xlii]</a></big></p>
<big></big>
<p><big>Grady concluded that without Zionist pressure, the U.S. would
not have had “the ill-will with the Arab states, which are of such
strategic importance in our ‘cold war’ with the soviets.”<a title=""
href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/03/21/the-origins-of-the-israel-lobby-in-the-us/#_edn43">[xliii]</a></big></p>
<big></big>
<p><big>Former Undersecretary of State Dean Acheson also opposed
Zionism. Acheson‘s biographer writes that Acheson “worried that the
West would pay a high price for Israel.” Another author, John Mulhall,
records Acheson‘s warning of the danger for U.S. interests:</big></p>
<big></big>
<blockquote>
<p><big>“…to transform [Palestine] into a Jewish State capable of
receiving a million or more immigrants would vastly exacerbate the
political problem and imperil not only American but all Western
interests in the Near East.”<a title=""
href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/03/21/the-origins-of-the-israel-lobby-in-the-us/#_edn44">[xliv]</a></big></p>
</blockquote>
<big></big>
<p><big>The Joint Chiefs of Staff reported in late 1947, “A decision to
partition Palestine, if the decision were supported by the United
States, would prejudice United States strategic interests in the Near
and Middle East” to the point that “United States influence in the area
would be curtailed to that which could be maintained by military force.”<a
title=""
href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/03/21/the-origins-of-the-israel-lobby-in-the-us/#_edn45">[xlv]</a></big></p>
<big></big>
<p><big>The Joint Chiefs issued at least sixteen papers on the
Palestine issue following World War II. They were particularly
concerned that the Zionist goal was to involve the U.S.</big></p>
<big></big>
<p><big>One 1948 paper predicted that “the Zionist strategy will seek
to involve [the United States] in a continuously widening and deepening
series of operations intended to secure maximum Jewish objectives.”<a
title=""
href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/03/21/the-origins-of-the-israel-lobby-in-the-us/#_edn46">[xlvi]</a></big></p>
<big></big>
<p><big>The CIA stated that Zionist leadership was pursuing objectives
that would endanger both Jews and “the strategic interests of the
Western powers in the Near and Middle East.”<a title=""
href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/03/21/the-origins-of-the-israel-lobby-in-the-us/#_edn47">[xlvii]</a></big></p>
<big></big>
<p><big>The head of the State Department‘s Division of Near Eastern
Affairs, Gordon P. Merriam, warned against the partition plan on moral
grounds:</big></p>
<big></big>
<blockquote>
<p><big>“U.S. support for partition of Palestine as a solution to
that problem can be justified only on the basis of Arab and Jewish
consent. Otherwise we should violate the principle of
self-determination which has been written into the Atlantic Charter,
the declaration of the United Nations, and the United Nations Charter –
a principle that is deeply embedded in our foreign policy. Even a
United Nations determination in favor of partition would be, in the
absence of such consent, a stultification and violation of UN‘s own
charter.” <a title=""
href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/03/21/the-origins-of-the-israel-lobby-in-the-us/#_edn48">[xlviii]</a></big></p>
</blockquote>
<big></big>
<p><big>Merriam added that without consent, “bloodshed and chaos” would
follow, a tragically accurate prediction.</big></p>
<big></big>
<p><big>An internal State Department memorandum accurately predicted
how Israel would be born through armed aggression masked as defense:</big></p>
<big></big>
<blockquote>
<p><big>“…the Jews will be the actual aggressors against the Arabs.
However, the Jews will claim that they are merely defending the
boundaries of a state which were traced by the UN.… In the event of
such Arab outside aid the Jews will come running to the Security
Council with the claim that their state is the object of armed
aggression and will use every means to obscure the fact that it is
their own armed aggression against the Arabs inside which is the cause
of Arab counter-attack.”<a title=""
href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/03/21/the-origins-of-the-israel-lobby-in-the-us/#_edn49">[xlix]</a></big></p>
</blockquote>
<big></big>
<p><big>And American Vice Consul William J. Porter foresaw one last
outcome of the “partition“ plan: that no Arab state would actually ever
come to be in Palestine.<a title=""
href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/03/21/the-origins-of-the-israel-lobby-in-the-us/#_edn50">[l]</a></big></p>
<big></big>
<p><big><em>This essay is excerpted from Alison Weir’s <a
href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/149591092X/counterpunchmaga"
onclick="javascript:_gaq.push(['_trackEvent','outbound-article','http://www.amazon.com']);">Against
Our Better Judgment: How the US was Used to Create Israel</a>.</em></big></p>
<big></big>
<p><big><em><strong>Alison Weir</strong> is the president of the <a
href="http://www.councilforthenationalinterest.org/new/"
onclick="javascript:_gaq.push(['_trackEvent','outbound-article','http://www.councilforthenationalinterest.org']);">Council
for the National Interest</a> and executive director of <a
href="http://ifamericansknew.org/"
onclick="javascript:_gaq.push(['_trackEvent','outbound-article','http://ifamericansknew.org']);">If
Americans Knew</a>.</em></big></p>
<big></big>
<p><big><em>Citations for this excerpt, which also contain additional
information, are available in the <a
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<big></big>
<div><big><strong>Notes.</strong><br clear="all">
</big>
<hr align="left" size="1" width="33%"><big></big>
<div><big></big>
<p><big><a title=""
href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/03/21/the-origins-of-the-israel-lobby-in-the-us/#_ednref1">[i]</a>
“American Zionist Movement (AZM),” <i>Jewish Virtual Library</i>, 2008,</big></p>
<big></big>
<p><big><a
href="http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0002_0_00978.html"
onclick="javascript:_gaq.push(['_trackEvent','outbound-article','http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org']);">http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0002_0_00978.html</a>.</big></p>
<big></big></div>
<big></big>
<div><big></big>
<p><big><a title=""
href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/03/21/the-origins-of-the-israel-lobby-in-the-us/#_ednref2">[ii]</a>
Neff, <i>Pillars</i>, 23.</big></p>
<big></big>
<p><big>The executive secretary of AZEC was a man named Isaiah Kenen,
who went on to found today’s American Israel Public Affairs Committee
(AIPAC), rated as one of the most powerful lobbying organization in the
U.S. Grant Smith, in his book <i>Declassified Deceptions: the Secret
History of Isaiah L. Kenen</i><i> and the Rise of the American Israel
Public Affairs Committee</i> (Washington, D.C.: Institute for Research:
Middle Eastern Policy, 2007) describes Kenen‘s activities in detail,
particularly how he worked to elude U.S. legal requirements that he
register as a foreign agent.</big></p>
<big></big></div>
<big></big>
<div><big></big>
<p><big><a title=""
href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/03/21/the-origins-of-the-israel-lobby-in-the-us/#_ednref3">[iii]</a>
Elmer Berger, <i>Memoirs of an Anti-Zionist</i><i> Jew</i> (Beirut:
Institute for Palestine Studies, 1978), 9.</big></p>
<big></big>
<p><big>Originally there had been two organizations, the United
Palestine Appeal (the main Zionist fund-raising effort in the U.S.) and
the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, which was dominated
by non-Zionists and which raised more money. Its purpose was to
“provide assistance to Jews in the countries in which they lived,
hoping to facilitate their eventual integration into those societies.”
Berger reports, “Never at a loss for maneuver – or dissembling–
however, the Zionist manager persuaded the ‘big givers’ that a ‘united
campaign’ would be more efficient than the competing, double
campaigns,” and they managed to push through the creation of the United
Jewish Appeal.</big></p>
<big></big></div>
<big></big>
<div><big></big>
<p><big><a title=""
href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/03/21/the-origins-of-the-israel-lobby-in-the-us/#_ednref4">[iv]</a>
Christison, <i>Perceptions</i>, 73; Wilson, <i>Decision on Palestine</i>,
134.</big></p>
<big></big>
<p><big>Wilson reports that Zionists, wishing to pressure the U.S.
government to support partition and end its arms embargo, raised $35
million (the equivalent of $349 million today) in just two weeks for
the United Jewish Appeal in just two weeks.</big></p>
<big></big></div>
<big></big>
<div><big></big>
<p><big><a title=""
href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/03/21/the-origins-of-the-israel-lobby-in-the-us/#_ednref5">[v]</a>
Neff, <i>Pillars</i>, 23; Tivnan, <i>The Lobby</i>, 24.</big></p>
<big></big></div>
<big></big>
<div><big></big>
<p><big><a title=""
href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/03/21/the-origins-of-the-israel-lobby-in-the-us/#_ednref6">[vi]</a>
Tivnan, <i>The Lobby</i>, 24</big></p>
<big></big></div>
<big></big>
<div><big></big>
<p><big><a title=""
href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/03/21/the-origins-of-the-israel-lobby-in-the-us/#_ednref7">[vii]</a>
Neff, <i>Pillars</i>, 23.</big></p>
<big></big></div>
<big></big>
<div><big></big>
<p><big><a title=""
href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/03/21/the-origins-of-the-israel-lobby-in-the-us/#_ednref8">[viii]</a>
Berger, <i>Memoirs</i>, 11.</big></p>
<big></big>
<p><big>In 1947 the American Council for Judaism submitted a 27-page
memorandum to the UN opposing Zionism. ACJ President Lessing J.
Rosenwald railed against what he termed Zionists’ “anti-Semitic
racialist lie that Jews the world over were a separate, national body.”</big></p>
<big></big>
<p><big>Smith, <i>Declassified Deceptions</i>, 29.</big></p>
<big></big></div>
<big></big>
<div><big></big>
<p><big><a title=""
href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/03/21/the-origins-of-the-israel-lobby-in-the-us/#_ednref9">[ix]</a>
Stevens, <i>American Zionism</i>, 101.</big></p>
<big></big></div>
<big></big>
<div><big></big>
<p><big><a title=""
href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/03/21/the-origins-of-the-israel-lobby-in-the-us/#_ednref10">[x]</a>
Berger, <i>Memoirs</i>, 17.</big></p>
<big></big></div>
<big></big>
<div><big></big>
<p><big><a title=""
href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/03/21/the-origins-of-the-israel-lobby-in-the-us/#_ednref11">[xi]</a>
Berger, <i>Memoirs</i>, 22.</big></p>
<big></big></div>
<big></big>
<div><big></big>
<p><big><a title=""
href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/03/21/the-origins-of-the-israel-lobby-in-the-us/#_ednref12">[xii]</a>
Wright, <i>Zionist</i><i> Cover-up</i>,<i> </i>25.</big></p>
<big></big>
<p><big>Wright was General staff G-2 Middle East specialist,
Washington, 1945-46; Bureau Near East-South Asian-African Affairs
Department of State, since 1946, country specialist 1946-47, advisor
U.N. affairs, 1947-50, advisor on intelligence 1950-55. He retired from
the State Department in 1966.</big></p>
<big></big></div>
<big></big>
<div><big></big>
<p><big><a title=""
href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/03/21/the-origins-of-the-israel-lobby-in-the-us/#_ednref13">[xiii]</a>
Lilienthal, <i>What Price Israel</i>, 63.</big></p>
<big></big></div>
<big></big>
<div><big></big>
<p><big><a title=""
href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/03/21/the-origins-of-the-israel-lobby-in-the-us/#_ednref14">[xiv]</a>
Stevens, <i>American Zionism</i>, 24.</big></p>
<big></big></div>
<big></big>
<div><big></big>
<p><big><a title=""
href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/03/21/the-origins-of-the-israel-lobby-in-the-us/#_ednref15">[xv]</a>
Stevens, <i>American Zionism</i>, 22.</big></p>
<big></big></div>
<big></big>
<div><big></big>
<p><big><a title=""
href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/03/21/the-origins-of-the-israel-lobby-in-the-us/#_ednref16">[xvi]</a>
Stevens, <i>American Zionism</i>,<i> </i>22-23.</big></p>
<big></big></div>
<big></big>
<div><big></big>
<p><big><a title=""
href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/03/21/the-origins-of-the-israel-lobby-in-the-us/#_ednref17">[xvii]</a>
Neff, <i>Pillars</i>, 23.</big></p>
<big></big>
<p><big>Herbert Hoover, “Message to the American Palestine Committee,
January 17, 1932,” <i>The American Presidency Project</i>,</big></p>
<big></big>
<p><big><a href="http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=23121"
onclick="javascript:_gaq.push(['_trackEvent','outbound-article','http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu']);">http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=23121</a>.</big></p>
<big></big>
<p><big>Patai, ed. “American Palestine Committee,” <i>Encyclopaedia of
Zionism</i><i> and Israel</i>, accessed January 1, 2014,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.iahushua.com/Zion/zionhol10.html">http://www.iahushua.com/Zion/zionhol10.html</a>.</big></p>
<big></big></div>
<big></big>
<div><big></big>
<p><big><a title=""
href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/03/21/the-origins-of-the-israel-lobby-in-the-us/#_ednref18">[xviii]</a>
Neff, <i>Pillars</i>, 23-24.</big></p>
<big></big></div>
<big></big>
<div><big></big>
<p><big><a title=""
href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/03/21/the-origins-of-the-israel-lobby-in-the-us/#_ednref19">[xix]</a>
Grose, <i>Mind of America</i>, 173.</big></p>
<big></big></div>
<big></big>
<div><big></big>
<p><big><a title=""
href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/03/21/the-origins-of-the-israel-lobby-in-the-us/#_ednref20">[xx]</a>
Neff, <i>Pillars</i>, 23-24.</big></p>
<big></big></div>
<big></big>
<div><big></big>
<p><big><a title=""
href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/03/21/the-origins-of-the-israel-lobby-in-the-us/#_ednref21">[xxi]</a>
Stevens, <i>American Zionism</i>, 28.</big></p>
<big></big></div>
<big></big>
<div><big></big>
<p><big><a title=""
href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/03/21/the-origins-of-the-israel-lobby-in-the-us/#_ednref22">[xxii]</a>
Stevens, <i>American Zionism</i>, 28.</big></p>
<big></big>
<p><big>Joseph M. Canfield, <i>The Incredible Scofield</i><i> and His
Book</i> (Vallecito, CA: Ross House Books, 2004).</big></p>
<big></big>
<p><big>Researchers may wish to explore an interesting though
speculative discussion about what might have been an earlier effort by
Zionists to influence Christians. Many years before AZEC targeted
Christians, an annotated version of the bible known as the
Scofield Reference Bible had been published, which pushed what was a
previously somewhat fringe “dispensationalist“ theology calling for the
Jewish “return” to Palestine.</big></p>
<big></big>
<p><big>Some analysts have raised questions about Cyrus Scofield and
how and why the Oxford University Press published his book. Scofield, a
Texas preacher who had been something of a shyster and criminal and had
abandoned his first wife and children (when his wife then filed for
divorce, the court ruled in her favor, noting that Scofield was “…not a
fit person to have custody of the children”). (Canfield, <i>Incredible
Scofield</i>, 113) He mysteriously became a member of an exclusive New
York men’s club in 1901. Biographer Joseph Canfield comments:</big></p>
<big></big>
<p><big>“The admission of Scofield to the Lotus Club, which could not
have been sought by Scofield, strengthens the suspicion that has
cropped up before, that someone was directing the career of C. I.
Scofield.” (Canfield, <i>Incredible Scofield</i>, 220)</big></p>
<big></big>
<p><big>Canfield suggests that Wall Street lawyer Samuel Untermyer, who
was also a member of the Lotus Club, may have played a role in
Scofield‘s project, writing that “Scofield‘s theology was most helpful
in getting Fundamentalist Christians to back the international interest
in one of Untermyer‘s pet projects – the Zionist Movement.” (Canfield, <i>Incredible
Scofield</i>, 219)</big></p>
<big></big>
<p><big>Professor David Lutz, in “Unjust War Theory: Christian
Zionism and the Road to Jerusalem,” writes: “Untermyer used Scofield, a
Kansas city lawyer with no formal training in theology, to inject
Zionist ideas into American Protestantism. Untermyer and other wealthy
and influential Zionists whom he introduced to Scofield promoted and
funded the latter’s career, including travel in Europe.”</big></p>
<big></big>
<p><big>David Lutz, “Unjust War Theory: Christian Zionism and the Road
to Jerusalem,” in <i>Neo-Conned! Again: Hypocrisy, Lawlessness, and
the Rape of Iraq, </i>ed.<i> </i>D. Liam O’Huallachain and J. Forrest
Sharpe (Vienna, VA: Light in the Darkness Publications, 2005), 127-169.</big></p>
<big></big>
<p><big>According to the Untermyer Gardens Conservancy website,
Untermyer “was a partner in the law firm of Guggenheimer,
Untermyer & Marshall, and was the first lawyer in America to earn a
one million dollar fee on a single case. He was also an astute
investor, and became extremely wealthy.</big></p>
<big></big>
<p><big>He was instrumental in the establishment of the Federal
Reserve System, was an influential Democrat and a close ally of Woodrow
Wilson.</big></p>
<big></big>
<p><big>The bio continues: “Samuel Untermyer was one of the most
prominent Jews of his day in America. He was a prominent Zionist, and
was President of the Keren Hayesod. In addition, he was the national
leader of an unsuccessful movement in the early 1930’s for a worldwide
boycott of Germany, and called for the destruction of Hitler‘s regime.”</big></p>
<big></big>
<p><big>“Samuel Untermyer,” <i>Untermyer</i><i> Gardens Conservancy</i>,
accessed January 1, 2014,</big></p>
<big></big>
<p><big><a href="http://www.untermyergardens.org/samuel-untermyer.html"
onclick="javascript:_gaq.push(['_trackEvent','outbound-article','http://www.untermyergardens.org']);">http://www.untermyergardens.org/samuel-untermyer.html</a>.</big></p>
<big></big>
<p><big>Irish journalist Maidhc Ó Cathail suggests that “absent such
powerful connections, it is hard to imagine ‘this peer among scalawags’
ever getting a contract with Oxford University Press to publish his
bible.”</big></p>
<big></big>
<p><big>Maidhc O Cathail, “Zionism‘s Un-Christian Bible,” <i>Middle
East Online</i>, November 25, 1999,</big></p>
<big></big>
<p><big><a href="http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=35914"
onclick="javascript:_gaq.push(['_trackEvent','outbound-article','http://www.middle-east-online.com']);">http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=35914</a>.</big></p>
<big></big></div>
<big></big>
<div><big></big>
<p><big><a title=""
href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/03/21/the-origins-of-the-israel-lobby-in-the-us/#_ednref23">[xxiii]</a>
Donald Neff, “Christians Discriminated Against By Israel,” in <i>Fifty
Years of Israel</i> (Michigan: American Educational Trust, 1998).</big></p>
<big></big></div>
<big></big>
<div><big></big>
<p><big><a title=""
href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/03/21/the-origins-of-the-israel-lobby-in-the-us/#_ednref24">[xxiv]</a>
Stephen Green, Taking Sides: America’s Secret Relations with a Militant
Israel (Brattleboro: Amana, 1988), 20.</big></p>
<big></big></div>
<big></big>
<div><big></big>
<p><big><a title=""
href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/03/21/the-origins-of-the-israel-lobby-in-the-us/#_ednref25">[xxv]</a>
Millar Burrows, <i>Palestine</i><i> Is Our Business</i> (Philadelphia:
Westminster, 1949), 116.</big></p>
<big></big></div>
<big></big>
<div><big></big>
<p><big><a title=""
href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/03/21/the-origins-of-the-israel-lobby-in-the-us/#_ednref26">[xxvi]</a>
See citation 7.</big></p>
<big></big></div>
<big></big>
<div><big></big>
<p><big><a title=""
href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/03/21/the-origins-of-the-israel-lobby-in-the-us/#_ednref27">[xxvii]</a>
Ilan Pappé, <i>The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine</i> (Oxford:
Oneworld, 2007).</big></p>
<big></big>
<p><big>Masalha Nur, <i>Expulsion of the Palestinians: The Concept of
“Transfer” in Zionist</i><i> Political Thought, 1882-1948</i>, 4th Ed.
(Washington, DC: Inst. for Palestine Studies, 2001).</big></p>
<big></big>
<p><big>Mazin Qumsiyeh, Sharing the Land of Canaan: Human Rights and
the Israeli-Palestinian Struggle (London: Pluto, 2004).</big></p>
<big></big>
<p><big>Mazin Qumsiyeh, “Palestinian Refugees Right to Return and
Repatriation” in <i>Sharing the Land of Canaan </i>(London: Pluto,
2004). Online at</big></p>
<big></big>
<p><big><a href="http://ifamericansknew.org/history/ref-qumsiyeh.html"
onclick="javascript:_gaq.push(['_trackEvent','outbound-article','http://ifamericansknew.org']);">http://ifamericansknew.org/history/ref-qumsiyeh.html</a>.</big></p>
<big></big></div>
<big></big>
<div><big></big>
<p><big><a title=""
href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/03/21/the-origins-of-the-israel-lobby-in-the-us/#_ednref28">[xxviii]</a>
Russell Warren Howe, “Fighting the ‘soldiers of Occupation’ From
WWII to the Intifada,” in <i>Seeing the Light: Personal Encounters
with the Middle East and Islam</i>, Ed. Richard H. Curtiss and Janet
McMahon (Washington, D.C.: American Educational Trust, 1997), 38-39.</big></p>
<big></big>
<p><big>Warren and his film crew were filming an interview with Begin
in 1974. “The red light had come on, under the lens. Without preamble,
I turned my shoulder to the camera, stared straight into Begin’s eyes,
and asked: ‘How does it feel, in the light of all that’s going on, to
be the father of terrorism in the Middle East?’ ‘In the Middle East?’
he bellowed, in his thick, cartoon accent. ‘In all the world.’”</big></p>
<big></big></div>
<big></big>
<div><big></big>
<p><big><a title=""
href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/03/21/the-origins-of-the-israel-lobby-in-the-us/#_ednref29">[xxix]</a>
McCarthy, <i>Population of Palestine</i>, 35.</big></p>
<big></big></div>
<big></big>
<div><big></big>
<p><big><a title=""
href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/03/21/the-origins-of-the-israel-lobby-in-the-us/#_ednref30">[xxx]</a>
British Mandatory Commission, A Survey of Palestine: Prepared in
December 1945 and January 1946 for the Information of the
Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry (Washington, D.C.: Institute for
Palestine Studies, 1991), 243-267.</big></p>
<big></big>
<p><big>This gives Jewish ownership in 1945 as approximately six
percent.</big></p>
<big></big>
<p><big>A UN map showing percentages of each district can be seen at <a
href="http://domino.un.org/maps/m0094.jpg"
onclick="javascript:_gaq.push(['_trackEvent','outbound-article','http://domino.un.org']);">http://domino.un.org/maps/m0094.jpg</a>.</big></p>
<big></big>
<p><big>Israeli author Baruch Kimmerling gives the landownership in
1947 as seven percent.</big></p>
<big></big>
<p><big>Robert J. Brym, review of <i>Zionism</i><i> and Territory: The
Socio-Territorial Dimensions of Zionist</i><i> Politics,</i> by
Baruch Kimmerling, <i>The Canadian Journal of Sociology </i>11, no. 1
(1986), 80.</big></p>
<big></big>
<p><big>It is interesting to note that the Arab position was largely
based on democratic principles. At a British conference on Palestine in
1946, Arabs presented a proposal “calling for the termination of the
Mandate and the independence of Palestine as a unitary state, with a
provisional governing council composed of seven Arabs and three Jews.”
(Wilson, <i>Decision on Palestine</i>, 97)</big></p>
<big></big></div>
<big></big>
<div><big></big>
<p><big><a title=""
href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/03/21/the-origins-of-the-israel-lobby-in-the-us/#_ednref31">[xxxi]</a>
“Charter of the United Nations: Chapter I, Purposes and Principles.”
UN News Center, accessed January 1, 2014, <a
href="http://www.un.org/en/documents/charter/chapter1.shtml">http://www.un.org/en/documents/charter/chapter1.shtml</a>.</big></p>
<big></big></div>
<big></big>
<div><big></big>
<p><big><a title=""
href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/03/21/the-origins-of-the-israel-lobby-in-the-us/#_ednref32">[xxxii]</a>
“United Nations General Assembly Resolution 181,” The Avalon Project,<i>
</i>accessed January 1, 2014,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/un/res181.htm">http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/un/res181.htm</a>.</big></p>
<big></big>
<p><big>“UN Partition Plan,”<i> BBC News</i>, November 29, 2001, <a
href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/middle_east/israel_and_the_palestinians/key_documents/1681322.stm">http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/middle_east/israel_and_the_palestinians/key_documents/1681322.stm</a>.</big></p>
<big></big>
<p><big>For a US equivalent, see:</big></p>
<big></big>
<p><big>“UN Partition Applied To US,” Palestine Remembered, September
10, 2001,</big></p>
<big></big>
<p><big><a
href="http://www.palestineremembered.com/Acre/Maps/Story581.html"
onclick="javascript:_gaq.push(['_trackEvent','outbound-article','http://www.palestineremembered.com']);">http://www.palestineremembered.com/Acre/Maps/Story581.html</a>.</big></p>
<big></big></div>
<big></big>
<div><big></big>
<p><big><a title=""
href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/03/21/the-origins-of-the-israel-lobby-in-the-us/#_ednref33">[xxxiii]</a>
Neff, <i>Pillars</i>, 41.</big></p>
<big></big></div>
<big></big>
<div><big></big>
<p><big><a title=""
href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/03/21/the-origins-of-the-israel-lobby-in-the-us/#_ednref34">[xxxiv]</a>
Noam Chomsky, The Fateful Triangle: The United States, Israel and the
Palestinians (Boston: South End, 1983), 161.</big></p>
<big></big>
<p><big>“In internal discussion in 1938 [David Ben-Gurion] stated that
‘after we become a strong force, as a result of the creation of a
state, we shall abolish partition and expand into the whole of
Palestine.’”</big></p>
<big></big></div>
<big></big>
<div><big></big>
<p><big><a title=""
href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/03/21/the-origins-of-the-israel-lobby-in-the-us/#_ednref35">[xxxv]</a>
Neff, <i>Pillars</i>, 30-31.</big></p>
<big></big></div>
<big></big>
<div><big></big>
<p><big><a title=""
href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/03/21/the-origins-of-the-israel-lobby-in-the-us/#_ednref36">[xxxvi]</a>
Neff, <i>Pillars</i>, 46-47.</big></p>
<big></big></div>
<big></big>
<div><big></big>
<p><big><a title=""
href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/03/21/the-origins-of-the-israel-lobby-in-the-us/#_ednref37">[xxxvii]</a>
Berger, <i>Memoirs</i>, 21.</big></p>
<big></big>
<p><big>Berger writes that in a personal conversation with him,
Henderson had said:</big></p>
<big></big>
<p><big>“I hope you and your associates will persevere. And my reason
for wishing this is perhaps less related to what I consider American
interests in the Middle East than what I fear I see on the domestic
scene. The United States is a great power. Somehow it will surmount
even its most foolish policy errors in the Middle East. But in the
process there is a great danger of creating divisiveness and
anti-Semitism among our own people. And if this danger materializes to
a serious extent, we have seen in Germany and in Europe that the
ability of a nation to survive the consequences is in serious question.”</big></p>
<big></big></div>
<big></big>
<div><big></big>
<p><big><a title=""
href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/03/21/the-origins-of-the-israel-lobby-in-the-us/#_ednref38">[xxxviii]</a>
Richard D. McKinzie, “Oral History Interview with Edwin M.
Wright,” <i>Truman</i><i> Library</i>, Wooster, OH, July 26, 1974,</big></p>
<big></big>
<p><big><a href="http://www.trumanlibrary.org/oralhist/wright.htm"
onclick="javascript:_gaq.push(['_trackEvent','outbound-article','http://www.trumanlibrary.org']);">http://www.trumanlibrary.org/oralhist/wright.htm</a>.</big></p>
<big></big>
<p><big>“Mr. Henderson was, therefore, told, ‘You’ve got to leave the
State Department or the Zionists are going to keep after us.’ The State
Department suggested he be sent as an ambassador to Turkey. The
Zionists had a clearance process going and they said, ‘No, that’s too
near the Middle East, we want to get him completely away from the
Middle East.’ The result was that they sent him as ambassador to India
to get him out of the area completely.”</big></p>
<big></big></div>
<big></big>
<div><big></big>
<p><big><a title=""
href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/03/21/the-origins-of-the-israel-lobby-in-the-us/#_ednref39">[xxxix]</a>
Revealed during conversation with State Department associate.</big></p>
<big></big></div>
<big></big>
<div><big></big>
<p><big><a title=""
href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/03/21/the-origins-of-the-israel-lobby-in-the-us/#_ednref40">[xl]</a>
Neff, <i>Pillars</i>, 46; Wilson, <i>Decision</i>, 117; Wright, <i>Zionist</i><i> Cover-up</i>,<i>
</i>21.</big></p>
<big></big></div>
<big></big>
<div><big></big>
<p><big><a title=""
href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/03/21/the-origins-of-the-israel-lobby-in-the-us/#_ednref41">[xli]</a>
Green, <i>Taking Sides</i>,<i> </i>20.</big></p>
<big></big></div>
<big></big>
<div><big></big>
<p><big><a title=""
href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/03/21/the-origins-of-the-israel-lobby-in-the-us/#_ednref42">[xlii]</a>
Henry Grady, “Chapter 9,” <i>Adventures in Diplomacy </i>(unpublished
manuscript),<i> </i>(Washington D.C.: Truman Library, n.d.), 170.
Online at</big></p>
<big></big>
<p><big><a
href="http://www.trumanlibrary.org/whistlestop/study_collections/israel/large/documents/index.php?documentdate=0000-00-00&documentid=4-7&studycollectionid=ROI&pagenumber=1"
onclick="javascript:_gaq.push(['_trackEvent','outbound-article','http://www.trumanlibrary.org']);">http://www.trumanlibrary.org/whistlestop/study_collections/israel/large/documents/index.php?documentdate=0000-00-00&documentid=4-7&studycollectionid=ROI&pagenumber=1</a>.</big></p>
<big></big>
<p><big>Henry Francis Grady and John T. McNay, <i>The Memoirs of
Ambassador Henry F. Grady</i><i>: from the Great War</i><i> to the Cold
War</i> (Columbia, MO: University of Missouri, 2009). Online at</big></p>
<big></big>
<p><big><a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=7BKTLX0mppoC&hl=en"
onclick="javascript:_gaq.push(['_trackEvent','outbound-article','http://books.google.com']);">http://books.google.com/books?id=7BKTLX0mppoC&hl=en</a>.</big></p>
<big></big></div>
<big></big>
<div><big></big>
<p><big><a title=""
href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/03/21/the-origins-of-the-israel-lobby-in-the-us/#_ednref43">[xliii]</a>
Grady, <i>Adventures</i>, 166.</big></p>
<big></big>
<p><big>Benzion Netanyahu, a Zionist who travelled to the US from
Palestine to propagandize Americans and father of future Israeli Prime
Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, tried – unsuccessfully – to use the Cold
War as a rationale for the U.S. to support Israel. Netanyahu believed
that “arguments appealing to American fears of Soviet expansion” would
be the best way to win over U.S. officials. He used this argument in
1947 in meetings with Loy Henderson and General Dwight Eisenhower, but
found no takers, (though Eisenhower arranged for him to meet with
someone else). (Medoff, <i>Militant Zionism</i>, 146)</big></p>
<big></big></div>
<big></big>
<div><big></big>
<p><big><a title=""
href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/03/21/the-origins-of-the-israel-lobby-in-the-us/#_ednref44">[xliv]</a>
Mulhall, <i>America</i>, 130.</big></p>
<big></big>
<p><big>Robert L. Beisner, <i>Dean Acheson</i><i>: a Life in the Cold
War</i> (Oxford: Oxford UP, 2006), 215.</big></p>
<big></big></div>
<big></big>
<div><big></big>
<p><big><a title=""
href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/03/21/the-origins-of-the-israel-lobby-in-the-us/#_ednref45">[xlv]</a>
Mark Perry, “Petraeus wasn’t the first,” <i>Foreign Policy</i>,
April 2, 2010,</big></p>
<big></big>
<p><big><a
href="http://mideast.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2010/04/01/petraeus_wasnt_the_first"
onclick="javascript:_gaq.push(['_trackEvent','outbound-article','http://mideast.foreignpolicy.com']);">http://mideast.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2010/04/01/petraeus_wasnt_the_first</a>.</big></p>
<big></big></div>
<big></big>
<div><big></big>
<p><big><a title=""
href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/03/21/the-origins-of-the-israel-lobby-in-the-us/#_ednref46">[xlvi]</a>
Perry, “Petraeus wasn’t the first.”</big></p>
<big></big>
<p><big>The paper speculated that the eventual goal was sovereignty
over “Eretz Israel,” which included Transjordan and parts of Lebanon
and Syria.</big></p>
<big></big></div>
<big></big>
<div><big></big>
<p><big><a title=""
href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/03/21/the-origins-of-the-israel-lobby-in-the-us/#_ednref47">[xlvii]</a>
Green, <i>Taking Sides</i>, 20.</big></p>
<big></big></div>
<big></big>
<div><big></big>
<p><big><a title=""
href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/03/21/the-origins-of-the-israel-lobby-in-the-us/#_ednref48">[xlviii]</a>
Neff, <i>Pillars</i>, 42-43.</big></p>
<big></big></div>
<big></big>
<div><big></big>
<p><big><a title=""
href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/03/21/the-origins-of-the-israel-lobby-in-the-us/#_ednref49">[xlix]</a>
Neff, <i>Pillars</i>, 65. Citation: “Draft Memorandum by the
Director of the Office of United Nations Affairs (Rusk) to the Under
Secretary of State (Lovett),” Secret, Washington May 4, 1948, <i>FRUS
1948</i>, pp. 894-95.</big></p>
<big></big></div>
<big></big>
<div><big></big>
<p><big><a title=""
href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/03/21/the-origins-of-the-israel-lobby-in-the-us/#_ednref50">[l]</a>
Wilson, <i>Decision on Palestine</i>, 131.</big></p>
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